- Date
- circa 1955-03
- Kind
- Observation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In March 1955 the Beaver Beacon described television as an established but still expanding communication channel on Beaver Island. It reported about 20 operating sets, new antenna installations, and possible reception from stations as far away as Milwaukee.
Evidence and limits
The article is a community newsletter observation, not a technical survey. The reported number of sets, station range, and early experimenters are retained as source-bounded claims; no household, equipment, or broadcast record is inferred.
Sources
- Reports about 20 television sets, additional antenna installations, reception from stations between Traverse City and Milwaukee, and earlier experiments by Stanley Burns and Edgar O’Donnell. It does not provide a household list, equipment inventory, reception measurements, or broadcast logs.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1955-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held three-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published reception report; it does not expand the source-specific technical or household claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1955-03_Beaver-Beacon
- Reprints the March 1955 observation, with a contemporary introduction saying about 18 sets were operating and antennae were increasing. It names Stanley Burns and Edgar O'Donnell as early experimenters and mentions reception as far away as Milwaukee. This is a retrospective reprint and community observation, not a technical survey or household inventory. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1983-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nine-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the retrospective reprint.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1983-06_Beaver-Beacon
Added 3 August 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Television reception becomes a Beaver Island communication channel, 1955”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-television-reception-1955/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1955, “T. V. on the Island.” (and 3 further sources listed on the page).
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